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There are some interesting implications for widely deployed processors that are literally never publicly seen because they spend their whole life in a highly lo
by gok 7y ago
There are some interesting implications for widely deployed processors that are literally never publicly seen because they spend their whole life in a highly locked down data center. I wonder if things like Meltdown could have ever been discovered if researchers could only poke at the chips via EC2.
- QuinnyPig 7y agoI believe the “metal” variants expose the processor extensions you’d need to discover Meltdown.
- ec109685 7y agoThat’s a good point. And AWS allows this type of security research as well freely: https://twitter.com/TeriRadichel/status/1101228943128969218 https://twitter.com/TeriRadichel/status/1101228943128969218
- floatboth 7y agoAlso, AWS processors use off-the-shelf Arm Cortex/Neoverse cores, and stuff like Spectre is core-level.